Roy Hattersley is a Guardian columnist. He served in Jim Callaghan'scabinet and later became deputy leader of the Labour party. He has been a columnist with the Spectator, Punch and the Listener and has written biographies, novels and histories. They include The Edwardians (2004), a life of John Wesley (2002), a biography of William and Catherine Booth (2000), Buster's Diaries (1999), Who Goes Home? (an allegedly humorous memoir, published in 1997), and A Yorkshire Boyhood (1983).